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David Attenborough says sending food to famine-ridden countries is ‘barmy’
from independent.co.uk: Sir David Attenborough (pictured) has attacked the idea of sending food aid to countries enduring famine as “barmy” and has urged for more debate about population control, it has been reported. The natural history broadcaster warned that the world was “heading for disaster” due to the threat of overpopulation, in comments made to…
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CDC Threat Report: ‘We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era’
from wired.com: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just published a first-of-its-kind assessment of the threat the country faces from antibiotic-resistant organisms, ranking them by the number of illnesses and deaths they cause each year and outlining urgent steps that need to be taken to roll back the trend. The agency’s overall…
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Just What The Doctor Ordered: Med Students Team With Chefs
from npr.org: For the past few weeks, the culinary arts students at University in Providence, R.I., have been working with some less-than-seasoned sous chefs. One of them, Clinton Piper, may look like a pro in his chef’s whites, but he’s struggling to work a whisk through some batter. “I know nothing about baking,” he says.…
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Raw Garlic Consumption Can Cut Lung Cancer Risk (Nearly) In Half
from naturalsociety.com: A new study out of China has remarkable findings in regards to lung cancer prevention. Lung cancer was responsible for the deaths of 158,081 people in the U.S. in 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevention, above treatment, is crucial as more people die from this type of cancer…
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11m Users Abandon #Facebook on Privacy Concerns
from alalam.ir: Millions of Facebook users are reportedly abandoning the social media giant at an unprecedented rate over privacy concerns. New research shows Facebook has lost a total of 11 million users, nine million in the US and two million in Britain. Researchers at the University of Vienna analyzed 600 users and found they quit…
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The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan
from Smithsonian.com: “On the flat top of a steep hill in a distant corner of northern Japan lies the tomb of an itinerant shepherd who, two millennia ago, settled down there to grow garlic. He fell in love with a farmer’s daughter named Miyuko, fathered three kids and died at the ripe old age of…
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Tri-City hockey crowds to be taped for U.S. security research
from tri-cityherald.com: Hockey fans at the season opener of the Tri-City Americans will have a chance to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security improve its facial recognition capabilities. Video will be taped by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at the Sept. 21 game in a portion of the Toyota Center in Kennewick. It is planned…
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Northrop Grumann producing more LCS mission modules
from upi.com: Three additional mission modules for the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ships are being produced by Northrop Grumman under a $25.2 million contract. Two of the modules are for surface warfare missions and one is for mine counter-measures. Each module package is comprised of a specific set of sub-systems such as data processing equipment,…
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How the cops watch your tweets in real-time
from arstechnica.com: Recent leaks about the NSA’s Internet spy programs have sparked renewed interest in government surveillance, though the leaks touch largely on a single form of such surveillance—the covert one. But so-called “open source intelligence” (OSINT) is also big business— and not just at the national/international level. New tools now mine everything from “the…
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Deodorant Linked To Breast Cancer According To New Studies
from govtslaves.info: If you really take the time to look into it, it can be extremely overwhelming to find out just how many ingredients in cosmetic and personal care products shouldn’t be in there. We have surrounded ourselves with an extremely toxic environment, with approximately one in every eight of the 82,000 ingredients used in…
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Egyptian Papyrus Found in Ancient Irish Bog
from phys.org: From 2010: “Irish scientists have found fragments of Egyptian papyrus in the leather cover of an ancient book of psalms that was unearthed from a peat bog, Ireland’s National Museum said on Monday. The papyrus in the lining of the Egyptian-style leather cover of the 1,200-year-old manuscript, “potentially represents the first tangible…
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New #Snowden Leak Reveals Secret $52.6 Billion Budget for Intelligence Agencies
from IntelliHub.com: A new leak from Edward Snowden shows a massive budget for the military spy industrial complex that is hidden from the public. The original leaks made my Edward Snowden were enough to totally change the whole collective dialogue about government spying, but those initial leaks were merely the tip of the iceberg. There…
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FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
from wired.com: It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors. Freedom Hosting’s operator, Eric Eoin Marques, had rented the servers…